Got the Call!!!

Heard from the agency today that we get to be J's family!!!!!  Told the kids and they were jumping up and down and screaming.  Our baby  was even screaming and "jumping"  because they all were.  K kept yelling, "this is our family, this is our family!" and my oldest was shouting, "Rejoice!" over and over again. They told me that they were all out in the playroom praying for him when I called them in.  : )We first saw his picture and info on a waiting child photolisting even before we brought our daughter home from Ethiopia.  He is 6 and half years old and is from Uganda.  I was drawn to him but knew there was no way we could do anything since we still were in the process of bringing our daughter home.  Then a couple months after we brought her home, I still saw his picture up there and tried to pursue adopting him at that point. However, the agency said our baby needed to be home longer before they talk to us and that there were several families interested in him so they were confident he would soon be matched with a family.  So, I felt happy for him but still could not disconnect myself from him.  As a family, we prayed that he would be matched with a family and adopted soon.  Several more months past and I still saw that he had not been matched with a family so I contacted the agency again and at this point they said they would accept our application as a potential family for him.  Which brings us to this point in time where we have been matched with him and will begin preparing our dossier and completing our homestudy. So now begins the long journey to bring him home.  Praying everything will go super fast and he can home to us way quicker than they are expecting.  Uganda's adoption program is fairly new so there are a lot of unknowns as far as time frames go. We were told that it would probably take 18-24 months to have him home.  Wish we could hop on a plane and go get him tomorrow.  Though I am confident that God will be with us and J the whole time and teach us things that we otherwise would not have learned.  Thank you God that we get to be the parents to this beautiful little boy!  Prepare us to be the best parents for him.